As the demand for beef products grows in Chinese market, understanding consumer preferences beef, especially those related to quality labelling, is essential. The recent agreement between China and European Union promote Geographical Indications (GIs) provides a new insight into with labelling. This paper assesses GIs other attributes. A nationwide survey conducted including 1210 respondents by choice experiment attributing GI label, 'green', 'hazard-free', 'organic' labels, feeding regimes...

The problem of clogging, especially biological makes the long-term operation subsurface flow constructed wetlands challenging. This study focused on two receiving reclaimed water near Tuhai River Shandong Province, aiming to provide a feasible method for composition analysis and chemical remediation by H2O2 solution clogging matter. compositions distributions matter in these were analyzed, effects solutions with different mass fractions proteins, polysaccharides, nucleic acids, humic acids...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate consumer attitudes towards and interest in enriching processed meat with healthy ingredients (“functional meat”). Design/methodology/approach Seven focus groups across age gender were conducted. Discussions analysed using an inductive thematic approach. Findings Strategies that participants felt as important for improving the healthiness mainly included use better quality less salt, fat, preservatives other additives. “Functional meat”...

Purpose In response to increasing public health concerns about processed meat consumption, many innovations in technology focus on health-oriented product reformulations. Processed is not a homogeneous food category. The purpose of this paper explore consumer perception the “healthier” reformulation different products using two approaches: salt and fat reduction; enrichment with healthy ingredients. Design/methodology/approach Seven group interviews were carried out 40 Irish regular...

Consumption trends demand healthier meat products and require research into reformulation strategies. Ambiguities in consumer preferences for two processed strategies (i.e., ingredient “reduction” nutrient “addition”) were investigated. Using physical prototypes of omega-3-enriched pork sausages sensory evaluation to reduce hypothetical bias, followed by a choice-based conjoint experiment, results suggested that consumers valued both “addition” strategies, consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP)...

This paper explores how food safety and nutrition organisations can harness the power of search engines, games, apps, social media, digital analytics tools to craft broad-reaching engaging communications. We start with showing identify popular queries, facilitating creation timely in-demand content. To ensure this content is discoverable by we cover several non-technical aspects engine optimisation (SEO). next explore potential going viral for reaching public, data-based be used optimise...

Purpose Following the standard practice of using nutrition claims to denote food functionality, this study empirically explores Chinese consumers’ willingness-to-pay for functional processed meat products by three (namely “increased calcium,” “containing omega-3”, and “reduced salt”) made on pork sausages. It also aims outline typical characteristics consumer segments based preferences. Design/methodology/approach A choice-based choice experiment is utilized investigate valuation attributes...

Purpose Continuing economic growth in emerging markets offers large market opportunities to producers and marketers worldwide; however, failures due asymmetric information are often seen when high-quality products enter these “new markets” where recognition rates among consumers low. The use of “geographical origin” labels as quality signals overcome problem plays an important role. purpose this paper is compare consumers’ perception willingness pay (WTP) for different levels geographic...

We analyze how asymmetric market shares impact advertising and pricing decisions by firms that have loyal, non-shopping customers can advertise to shoppers through a 'gatekeeper.' In equilibrium, the firm with smaller loyal advertises more aggressively but prices less competitively than larger market. Our results differ significantly from earlier literature which assumes observe all finds adopts competitive strategy. The predictions of model are consistent behavior observed on price...

Despite the fast-rising popularity of whey protein sports supplements over recent years, there has been little research to investigate driving forces behind consumer choices. Using a dataset collected in Ireland, we applied ordered Heckman two-stage method examine evolving trend and determine key factors that affect consumers' The study found demographic variables, such as gender income, do not significantly influence decision on whether or consume whey, but exercise type is highly...

As marketing tools, nutrition claims (NCs) and health (HCs) can be used to convey the nutritional properties benefits of food consumers, but their respective effects on consumers' perceptions healthier meat products are inconsistent in literature. Using a physical prototype omega-3-enriched sausages as research interest, this paper explores how HCs NCs differently influence sensory preferences willingness pay (WTP). Sensory tests were carried out among 330 participants, followed by...

Irish beef processors and cattle farmers have been involved in a lasting controversy on power asymmetry. This paper estimates the degree of market processing industry. The New Empirical Industrial Organization approach is extended for estimation, testified by conjectural elasticity with supply demand functions, indicating that exert significant farms. Export-orientation high subsidies are two outstanding features Exports shown this to an insignificant influence power. confirms can exercise...

A fast-changing global landscape highlights the importance of understanding spatial price dynamics in key international markets such as China, especially era COVID-19 pandemic with food trade and system experiencing an unprecedented challenge. Nowadays, New Zealand’s dominant position China’s dairy import market is being challenged by European Union (EU) exporters leading to intensified competition. Using monthly export data skim milk powder (SMP), we applied threshold cointegration models...

The dairy sector in the European Union (EU) has experienced policy changes and market shocks recently. Using global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model, this paper explores regional integration, feedback between price dynamics, link EU's cheese export markets energy market. This assesses compares which influencing factors are typically associated with intra-EU extra-EU movement regards to crude oil price, farm-gate raw milk consumer index (CPI) for food production of six representative EU...

Recently, the world has experienced striking economic and policy changes, subsequent uncertainties have impacts on dairy trade price fluctuations. The Global Vector Autoregressive (GVAR) methodology was established in this paper to better understand international butter export prices transmission, feedback between context changes fluctuations, link global market, energy other commodity markets. We assessed which key factors are typically associated with movements regards shocks crude oil...

Due to the lack of recognized differentiation for grass-fed dairy products, producers quality products have failed capture consumer premium. This study investigates Chinese consumers' preference naturalness attributes as potential criteria product milk. We examine how grazing conditions (e.g., pasture grazing), animal feed fed grass), functional improvement increase content CLA, Omega-3 and Vitamin B), imagery property (healthy, natural, tasty, sustainable) affects willingness pay....

A kind of improved bio-ecological combination process with high efficiency and low energy consumption for municipal wastewater treatment was put forward in this article. Based on the comparison analysis other methods, conclusions had summed up that effluent quality indexes reached first level criteria specified Discharge Standard Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant (GB18918-2002), when to methods which same effect, decreased by 20%-40%. Meanwhile operation management is much more...

Abstract The consumer survey reported in this research paper aims to understand how Chinese mothers learn about and confirm the origin of powdered infant formulas (henceforward formulas), their knowledge level preferences between from different origins. With globalization, dairy companies can source ingredients for domestic production manufacture finished products across world. consumers are now facing a variety with brand origin, main ingredient (‘ nai yuan ’), manufacturing...

This study explores the strategic pricing behaviors across retail chains for produce products. We adopt a Panel-VAR model to identify driving factors of price variation and find that history, competition, product cost are among key drivers change. Forecast Error Variance Decomposition (FEVD) is used quantify relative impact changes show how they affect prices differently chains. also higher responsiveness competition may indicate superior management ability in setting associates with better...